Freedom

Mind the gap!

January 21st: The 2017 snap election was notable for many things, not least the Tory party itself proclaiming that its policies have not worked.

The Alarming Rise of Virgin Care – and Branson’s threat to the NHS

January 14th: Manchester SolFed analyses the career of billionaire railway subsidies junkie Richard Branson and the ways he’s expanding into the British he…

What We Can Expect From Alt Right in 2018

January 2nd: In the last few years, a new kind of fascism emerged in North America and Europe.

Theme park and living laboratory: Lisbon and Porto’s territorial nightmares

December 22nd: Avalanche examines changes wrought on Portugal’s twin capitals by elites’ accelerated and brutal reconstruction of their geographies �…

Amid TUC decline, Britain’s radical unions grow

December 21st: The Trades Union Congress is facing a decline in membership that many within the organisation are recognising as a crisis.

Mugabe: The Old Man and the Coup

December 5th: Shawn Hattingh looks at the fall of Robert Mugabe from power in Zimbabwe, arguing this will not bring liberation as it doesn’t confront an en…

Lessons of Cornerhouse

November 21st: The Cornerhouse is a former theatre in Manchester squatted from January to August 2017 by self-organised homeless people linked to the Manchester A…

Institutional bias: The BBC and climate change damage

November 9th: David Edwards and David Cromwell contrast Big Media and Auntie Beeb’s coverage of Hurricane Harvey and the South Asian floods, where a Weste…

Roots of the raids against Brazil’s anarchist movement

November 5th: Following a series of raids against properties linked to the Gaucho Anarchist Federation (FAG) late last month, The Kaos Library in Porto Allegre a…

An open letter to Plan C on Corbyn’s Labour

November 1st: Plan C recently ran a series of articles about the libertarian left and the Labour Party under Corbyn, including three which were very pro engagem…

The Way Forward for South Africa: Class Struggle and Anarchism

October 24th: In this article, published online by Zabalaza Anarchist-Communist Federation, Nkululeko Khubisa of the Tokologo African Anarchist Collective cons…

Book extract: Deep Ecology and Anarchism

October 15th: Marking the run-up to the launch of deep ecology and anarchism at this year’s London Anarchist Bookfair on October 28th, below is the latter …

The Tories are desperate – expect sickness

October 6th: What a few weeks it’s been in British politics.

Anarchists and admin

September 10th: One day, after a successful revolution, in that bit of political theory where Marxism tends towards anarchism, the State will wither away and we wi…

Why does the left hate free speech? Interesting question…

August 27th: Since the election of Donald Trump, a right-wing discussion point which had long been burbling in national press outlets such as The Times and the …